A Quietus Live Report – Poles Vaulting: The Quietus Salutes Katowice’s OFF...
The Quietus kindly sent me to OFF Festival in Katowice, Poland last Summer, for three days of righteous music. My contributions, alongside Julian Marszalek’s, are below. Just to blow my own trumpet,...
View ArticleA Liminal Review: The Seer by Swans (August 15th, 2012)
“Lunacy! Lunacy! Lunacy!” The chant rises up out of the musical ashes of opening track ‘Lunacy’, the first of many supreme meltdowns that course through The Seer, the latest monolith of an album by the...
View ArticleA Quietus Interview – Bleak Psychedelia: Michael Gira Of Swans’ Favourite...
Michael Gira and Swans have cast long shadows over 2012, via two critically hailed albums (one live, the other the monumental The Seer) and an extensive series of tours and gigs. Whether appearing...
View ArticleA Dusted Review: To Be Kind by Swans (May 15th, 2014)
Three full studio albums into their reinvigorated latest phase, and Swans’ ability to surprise remains as potent as ever To Be Kind might just be the most startling and uncompromising of the trio,...
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